Puppy Care – Helping your Puppy Feel more Comfortable

Getting a new puppy is a very exciting thing, especially for families that have kids. They would want to see the puppy and play with it all day. Although puppies may be naturally full of energy and curious, some puppies have a hard time adjusting to their new environment. This could affect how they sleep and eat and may cause permanent damage to their growth, making them prone to genetic diseases like DM in dogs in the future. It’s best to help it adjust as easily and as fast as it can. Below are some tips to help your puppy feel more at home faster.

Get the house ready

Before you bring the puppy home, you have to make sure that the house is cleaned and well arranged. The puppy should be given its own space, so get it a mat or even a dog bed where it can rest and sleep. If there are rooms in the house that you don’t want the puppy to go, then place a child fence at the door.

Let it explore

Once the puppy arrives at the house, let it wander around and know its new environment a little better. It might mark its territory so get ready to clean it up and lay down some newspapers. It will be important to toilet train the puppy a few days after taking it home.

House rules

It’s important that you establish house rules as early as the first few days. Your puppy needs to know where it can eat, where it should sleep, which rooms he or she is not allowed in, just to name a few. If your puppy misbehaves, it’s best to take it to a small holding pen, and place it there for a few minutes as a form of punishment.

Treats

Give your puppy a treat each time it does something good, such as going to the bathroom outside or not biting on the table legs. Positive reinforcement and prizes are the best ways of encouraging good behavior in puppies. Give your puppy treats that have vitamins and minerals added to them. This helps keep them in good shape, grow at the right pace and avoid illnesses like DM in dogs when they grow up.

Let it play

Let your puppy play. Let it run around the house as this allows it to familiarize itself with other people and animals that are living with you. If you have kids, let them spend time playing together.

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Tibetan Mastiff

Majestic mountain guardian

Cross the furry lion-like appearance of a Chow Chow (minus the blue mouth and tongue) and the size of an overgrown Rottweiler and you’ll have an idea how a Tibetan Mastiff looks like. Colors range from Rottweiler-like patterns, to solid black, red, cream, blue (muddy black) and solid white (rare).

 

Tibetan Mastiffs are generally famous for their lion-like mane. In their native Tibet (and other places in the Himalayas like Bhutan, Nepal and Northern India), the Tibetan Mastiff (locally known as Do-khyi “”) are used to guard sheep and other livestock, buildings, and even whole villages). They are therefore intelligent, watchful, and stubborn.

 

The Tibetan Mastiff is not considered a true mastiff. Some say it can be more accurately called “Himalayan mountain dog.” Prized in Tibet for its ferocity, it can tackle wolves or leopards. This trait can be seen in the 2011 animated movie “The Tibetan Dog”.

Tibetan mastiffs have been owned by famous people—ranging from the Buddha and Genghis Khan (unverified), to King George IV and US president Eisenhower (dogs pictured below).

 

Rarely found outside Tibet, the Tibetan Mastiff has become a highly prized status symbol for China's growing number of rich people. Consequently, The Tibetan Mastiff has become one of the world’s most expensive dog breeds. In 2011, an 11-month red Tibetan Mastiff named Hong Dong (I know what you’re thinking [*snicker*] but it just means “Big Splash” in Chinese)  was sold for 10 million yuan (about $1.5 million).

 

Red is considered lucky by the Chinese so this could be one of the reasons why Big Splash made, well, a big splash.

Tibetan Mastiffs are not for everybody. If you’re lucky to acquire one, make sure to give them the food, climate, space, attention and training they need. And don’t forget to show them who’s boss.

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Donkeys

Chances are, when you think about the movie Shrek, the first thing that comes to mind won’t be the green ogre the film is named after, but one of its funniest characters, Donkey. Donkey is an unlikely sidekick to Shrek, helping him out of tight spots throughout the entire Shrek series of films and providing the majority of comic relief moments.

The Donkey, more appropriately known as an Ass, first originated from the African Wild Ass, considered today as one of the world’s most endangered animals. Donkeys have deep roots of domestication with man, with evidence suggesting contact with humans as far back as 5,000 years ago.

Donkeys are affectionate animals, greatly enjoying the companionship of people. In fact, donkeys are such social animals that they quickly become depressed when left without any companions. And just as how Donkey in Shrek is portrayed as being stubborn, some donkeys in real life exhibit the same traits. However, this is due to an instinct of self-preservation, rather than stubbornness. A donkey will also show this behavior if it still has a strong prey instinct and spent little time with people.

And one other thing about donkeys. Though Shrek’s version isn’t exactly the brightest crayon in the box, numerous studies have shown that just like its distant cousins the horses, donkeys are also intelligent, friendly, playful and cautious, displaying an ability and interest to learn from their masters.

Another surprising fact about donkeys is how good they can be as guard animals. Indeed, a good donkey will be great at watching over an entire herd of goats, sheep or cattle. Caution however, must be exercised when exposing donkeys to goats, as the two don’t often mix together—donkeys are used to coyotes as their natural predator.

Donkeys Video

 

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